Week 2!!

Well this week flew by! Crazy how fast it went! The food is still pretty great! This week a member made Hamburgers which was a great blessing! I also discovered the donuts here are really good..so that is not good...and they are normally 3x10 pesos (which is about 75 cents)..Luckily we work out every morning! This week was pretty great otherwise as well! We have a lot of great investigators and one has her baptism in 2 weeks! So that is exciting! Hopefully it works out great! The language is coming along, not perfectly but I feel like I
am learning more and more each day which is good! The members help out alot and are patient with me when I speak! This week a big thing that helped me with the language was remembering that a smile and laughter is universal! Everyone can understand it! Remember that this week, that no matter who anyone is, everyone understands a smile!
A couple days ago we were going to teach a new investigator, we knew she lived a long way from the rest of the city but we were not sure how far, so we started the trek down the dirt road, it ended up being maybe just over a half mile, so it shouldnt have been too bad, but we have had alot of rain, so it was pretty muddy..it made for a adventure, but when we found the investigator we were able to teach her and her children and they loved the lesson and are excited to learn more! The Lord will bless us if we persist! 

 I made some killer french toast this week

the long muddy road!

I hope you all have a great week! Mante is great!
Con amor,

Elder Ford

Week one in Mante!!

What a week! I cant believe I am here in Mexico! Its pretty crazy! Quick overview of the city, there are some main roads with somebusinesses, mainly small food businesses, then most of the community
is dirt roads with homes, there are a good amount of real homes, but also some smaller wood shacks, the weather is hot hot hot, with rain a
couple times a week so it is very muddy! The people are super nice
here! and the food is good! I havent eaten anything crazy yet, mainly
meat and some type of pasta or rice!

 this is most of Mante, lots of dirt roads, I love it!

The work here is going well, people are very receptive to the gospel,

but most miss church for various reasons! One of our great

investigators is Lupita, she has a baptismal date for November 7th!

Everytime we teach her she always cries during the closing pray

because she feels the spirit so strong! Isnt it wonderful that we can

all have the Holy Ghost comforting us in our lives!

 Picture 1: took a quick picture on one of the city roads, not a great pic sorry

        Here in Mexico the big meal of the day is lunch at 2 oclock, which has been weird to get used to, but it is a nice break in the middle of the

day!

I have learned this week that I really took for granted hot water

while showering, but I like cold showers now so thats good!

Everything Is good here! I hope all is well with all of you! I look

forward from hearing from you all next week!

Have a great week!

Con amor,

Elder Ford

I'm in Mexico!

Oct 14, 2013

Well Crazy few days but I am in my first area in Mexico! It is a city called Mante about 3 hours from Tampico! It seems like it will be a good place, ive been here about 2 hours and I like it so far! It is very hot here, but thats okay! My apartment is nice, we have ac which is a blessing! And I think we are on the same road as a golf course, so thats even better! 

MTC branch president and his wife with our district

My Companions name is Elder Rugillar, he is from Chile, so that will help me with my spanish a  ton! I am excited to learn more! My first 2 days in Mexico have been great! 

My trainer in an internet cafe 

Early Monday morning I flew from Salt lake to Mexico City, I had a layover in Mexico city, where I ordered subway completly in spanish,then I flew to tampico! I got to tampico at about 830 and got to the mission office at about 9! From there I went to the house where me and the other new missionaries were staying and we had little ceasers pizza and then went to bed pretty quick! The next morning we got up and had some training meeting with the mission president ( president Ramierez) which was good! Then we went to his house for lunch, which is the big meal of the day, we had some great, authentic mexican tacos, which was great! It was superspicy, but I liked it!! after that we got our companions, hung out till the night then went back to the house, and got more little ceasers pizza (I bet you are all seeing a theme, tampico missionaries love little ceasers)! then we went to bed, this morning me and my comp left on our 3 hour bus ride to Mante! the bus was nice so i just slept the trip! and now I am here! I am pretty excited to start the work and to work on my spanish! Monday will be my email day in the future weeks just to let you all know!

I am grateful to be here in Mexico to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ!

I hope you all have a great week!

With Love,

Elder Ford

Hola to all!!

Oct 7, 2015

Hope everyone has had a great week! It has been pretty good here! A little crazy, but good!

First of all travel plans have been crazy! My visa hadnt come through, so last week I found out I would be visa waiting in California! But then 2 days later I found out my visa came so Mexico here I come!! I leave on monday and fly to Mexico City then to TAMPICO!!!!!! I couldn't be more excited/nervous! But I know it will be good! I hope you all had the oppritunity to watch confrence, if not you should search it! It is powerful! The blessing of having real prophets

on the earth is amazing! And the night after confrence VocalPoint came to perform here! Look them up too! Its a acapella group from BYU!

 me and my companions with Marco! We taught him while we were
here! Love him!

I dont have much time, but I want to share one uplifting thought! Build others up! Dont knock down! It can takes years to build someone up and only seconds to knock them down! So that is a great message for all!

I love you all!

Have a great week!

Elder Ford!

Hello All!!

Sept. 30 2015

Well less than 2 weeks till i am out of the MTC, that is exciting, but pretty nerve racking as well, the MTC is great and I learn a lot, but at the same time It is a little bit repetitive so it will be great to get out to the mission field! 

Christmas Selfie

We have to find ways to stay entertained in here and this past week, because it was the 25th we celebrated Christmas, we has stockings, we made snowflakes we had a white elephant exchange and sang Christmas hymns! Pretty fun, was like a kindergarten party for a bunch of 20 year olds, but we are all kids on the inside right?? Ill send some pictures of it! 

We don't eat very healthy but thats ok.

Besides that the rest of the week was pretty normal, the other good part was on sunday our devotional was the managing director of the missionary department and

he was pretty funny, he made fun of a lot of people and it was funny, but it was also spiritual! he shared a bunch of Mormon commercials from the 90's called the home front campaign and they all had great tag lines at the end, ill share my favorite couple!

"When everything says you cant believe in the part of you that says you can!"

"Whatever you do in life, just do your best!"

Those were my two favorite! I know that they are applicabale to all of our lives! love you all! I look forward to hearing from you all!

have a great week!

Love,

Elder Ford